Archinect - News2016-12-09T10:50:03-05:00http://archinect.com/news/article/149969592/the-search-is-on-for-the-uk-holocaust-memorial-design-team
The search is on for the UK Holocaust Memorial design team Justine Testado2016-09-20T18:32:00-04:00>2016-09-22T23:20:33-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/zm/zm72axbfbs8x6u1u.jpg" width="650" height="975" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Britain may soon have its own national memorial dedicated to Holocaust victims and survivors. Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced the official launch of the [UK] Holocaust Memorial international competition...The winning team will design the new Memorial and a below-ground public Learning Centre located beside Parliament in London's Victoria Tower Gardens. Plans for the memorial competition were first revealed by David Cameron this past January.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More on Archinect:</p><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/147370852/frank-gehry-and-maya-lin-find-their-ancestral-roots-on-pbs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frank Gehry and Maya Lin find their ancestral roots on PBS</a></p><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/115812125/winner-of-the-canadian-national-memorial-to-victims-of-communism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Winner of the Canadian National Memorial to Victims of Communism</a></p><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/113367275/proposal-for-the-future-of-auschwitz-birkenau" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Proposal for the future of Auschwitz-Birkenau</a></p>http://archinect.com/news/article/141442659/architecture-is-a-field-of-repression-daniel-libeskind-on-childhood-memories-trauma-and-architecture
"Architecture is a field of repression": Daniel Libeskind on childhood memories, trauma, and architecture Nicholas Korody2015-11-19T17:05:00-05:00>2015-11-30T22:24:52-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/al/ala5k5qxili21tp1.jpg" width="650" height="404" border="0" title="" alt="" /><p>"You repress almost everything to produce a building," states Daniel Libeskind during a long and wide-ranging <a href="http://childhoodrecollections.roca-exhibitions.co.uk/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conversation</a> with the architectural historian Gillian Darley&nbsp;in the context of the exhibition <em>Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design</em> at the Roca London Gallery.<br><br>"Everything is repressed because it has to fit into the context, it has to be stylized, it has to appeal to clients, it has to be normal," he contends. "But I always thought, try to show what has been repressed in architecture. It&rsquo;s very difficult because people don&rsquo;t like it."<br><br>Their conversation touches on a number of Libeskind's central concerns and makes frequent reference to both his biography and his oeuvre. Here are some of the highlights (check out the full video below):<br><br><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/q4/q4zk65521vjcmyfc.jpg"><br><br><strong>On his childhood:</strong></p><ul><li>"I was lucky to have that experience of... the mythology of New York, which is arriving by boat as an immigrant. You know, woken up, 4 o&rsquo;clock in the morning by my mother with my sister, go up, wake up, 'you&rsquo;re going to see Ne...</li></ul>http://archinect.com/news/article/113367275/proposal-for-the-future-of-auschwitz-birkenau
Proposal for the future of Auschwitz-Birkenau Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2014-11-11T14:51:00-05:00>2014-11-13T22:13:30-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/6u/6ujttfmy8dhzzr9b.jpg" width="615" height="260" border="0" title="" alt="" /><p>When a well-intentioned Alabama teenager tweeted a smiling <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/07/22/the-other-side-of-the-infamous-auschwitz-selfie/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">selfie taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau</a>, she attracted a deluge of hatred and outrage from across the internet. Lambasted as disrespectful, insensitive and inappropriate, the selfie was later explained as a means of memorializing her visit to the camp for her father, who had passed away exactly a year prior to her visit. Her gesture was <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/should-auschwitz-be-a-site-for-selfies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by no mean the first or last of its kind</a>, and represents an inevitable schism in memorial politics &ndash; as traumas recede from lived-past into historical contexts, how should cultural inheritance be balanced against personal experience? And how can this balance be articulated in the memorial space?</p><p>Currently, Auschwitz-Birkenau is memorialized in a variety of ways, but the structures themselves are not being actively preserved. In 1947, the Polish government established a memorial to all victims, and opened an exhibition of prisoner paraphernalia at Birkenau in 1955. Auschwitz I, the original death ca...</p>http://archinect.com/news/article/108250364/italy-s-planned-holocaust-museum-moving-to-eur-mussolini-s-expo-site
Italy’s planned Holocaust museum moving to EUR, Mussolini’s expo site Alexander Walter2014-09-05T13:07:00-04:00>2014-09-05T13:10:04-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/6e/6e8969936a8149e464caa17df125a5d4.jpg" width="550" height="365" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The Holocaust museum planned for Rome since 2005 could open next year in a new, bigger location at EUR, named after the Esposizione Universale Roma, in time to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
After almost a decade of delay and &euro;15m spent to acquire a plot of land, the first Museo della Shoah quietly stalled before construction even started.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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Daniel Libeskind design wins Canadian National Holocaust Monument competition Justine Testado2014-05-12T14:00:00-04:00>2014-05-20T20:18:45-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/mo/mo8lhis0qmwoffce.jpg" width="650" height="650" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Team Lord of Toronto was announced today as the winner to design the new Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada's capital.
The team's proposal, titled "Landscape of Loss, Memory and Survival", was selected out of six finalists who were invited to present their concepts to a jury of professionals and then to the public during the national design competition.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Led by co-president of Lord Cultural Resources Gail Dexter-Lord, the Toronto-based team also includes Daniel Libeskind (architect), Edward Burtynsky (artist&ndash;photographer), Claude Cormier (landscape architect), and Doris Bergen (subject-matter advisor).</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/n2/n2ecxjtppda08qk9.jpg"></p><p>More info about the project on <a href="http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/daniel_libeskind_design_wins_canadian_national_holocaust_monument_competiti/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bustler</a>.</p>http://archinect.com/news/article/85388392/six-finalists-listed-for-last-phase-of-the-canadian-national-holocaust-monument-competition
Six finalists listed for last phase of the Canadian National Holocaust Monument competition Justine Testado2013-10-30T19:49:00-04:00>2013-11-04T22:18:37-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/qr/qrwexsc72iczmpqy.jpg" width="650" height="507" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Six finalist teams were invited to develop design concepts for the National Holocaust Monument that will be built in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. The two-phase national competition began with a Call for Qualifications in May 2013.
The teams &mdash; which had to be led by a Canadian citizen &mdash; consist of architects, artists and other design professionals from around the globe.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
<em>Some notable architecture team members include David Adjaye, Daniel Libeskind, Gilles Saucier of Saucier+Perrotte, and Jeffrey Craft of SWA Group.</em></p>http://archinect.com/news/article/72768306/libeskind-s-design-selected-for-columbus-holocaust-memorial
Libeskind's design selected for Columbus Holocaust memorial Archinect2013-05-08T17:58:00-04:00>2013-05-13T19:09:54-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/de/dem2jhj0zvcuqabe.jpg" width="640" height="477" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The specially appointed Holocaust Memorial Artist Selection Committee overwhelmingly favored Daniel Libeskind&rsquo;s design for an 18-foot tall brushed stainless-steel memorial accompanied by a 40-foot walkway and memorial words etched in limestone.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
After a daylong meeting in which the panel heard extensive presentations from all three artists, Richard H. Finan, chairman of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, which will make the final decision on the design, strongly opposed Libeskind&rsquo;s proposal. He said a memorial with a Jewish religious symbol would immediately open the state to legal challenges from the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations because of the separation of church and state.</p>